Spike Lee — Director (30)
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Pass Over (2018) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Pass Over
director: Spike Lee / Danya Taymor actor: Jon Michael Hill / Julian Parker …
Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013) [Movie]
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
director: Spike Lee / Philip Marcus actor: Mike Tyson
other title: Mike Tyson: tutta la verità / Mike Tyson: Verdade Fora De Disputa …
Mike Tyson's one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Spike Lee, this riveting one-man show goes beyond the headlines, behind the scenes and between the lines to deliver a must-see theatrical knockout.
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John Leguizamo: Freak (1998) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
John Leguizamo: Freak
director: Spike Lee actor: John Leguizamo
other title: Freak
John Leguizamo's semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as...himself. This is his autobiographical story, about his life growing up, and his journey to try to be accepted by his father. We see this story through a bizarre myriad of characters and situations, which include the eccentric Uncle Sanny, the Fat Boy Called Bitch (John's little brother, Poochie), his mom, his evil grandmothers, and Lee Stratsberg, not to mention a brief appearance by Cantinflas as God.
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) [TV] IMDb TMDB
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
director: Spike Lee actor: Ray Nagin / Garland Robinette …
other title: Katrina (When The Levees Broke)
Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.
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Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
director: Spike Lee actor: Monty Ross / Donna Bailey …
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business is slow. One evening, Mr. Lovejoy shows up to offer Zack the same deal he gave to Joe. It could turn his business around, but what will he have to give in return?
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Mo' Better Blues (1990) [Movie]
Mo' Better Blues
director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Spike Lee …
other title: Cuanto más, mejor
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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Bamboozled (2000) [Movie]
Bamboozled
director: Spike Lee actor: Damon Wayans / Savion Glover …
other title: It’s Showtime / The Very Black Show
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.
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Summer of Sam (1999) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Summer of Sam
director: Spike Lee actor: John Leguizamo / Adrien Brody …
other title: S.O.S. Summer of Sam - Panico a New York / Verão Escaldante …
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015) [Movie] TMDB
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
director: Spike Lee actor: Stephen Tyrone Williams / Zaraah Abrahams …
other title: Il sangue di Cristo / The Sweet Blood of Jesus
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
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Chi-Raq (2015) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Chi-Raq
director: Spike Lee actor: Teyonah Parris / Nick Cannon …
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
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Da 5 Bloods (2020) [Movie]
Da 5 Bloods
7.3 (6 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Delroy Lindo / Jonathan Majors …
other title: Da 5 Bloods - Come fratelli / Da 5 Bloods: Irmãos de Armas …
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
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All the Invisible Children (2005) [Movie] TMDB
Les enfants invisibles
director: Mehdi Charef / Emir Kusturica … actor: Adama Bila / Elysée Rouamba …
other title: Les enfants invisibles / Alle Kinder dieser Welt …
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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Lumière & Company (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lumière et Compagnie
director: Francis Girod / David Lynch … actor: Jeff Alperi / Romane Bohringer …
other title: Lumière et Compagnie / Lumière e Companhia …
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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Bad 25 (2012) [Movie] TMDB
Bad 25
director: Spike Lee actor: Michael Jackson / Spike Lee …
other title: Michael Jackson: Bad 25 / 25 Jahre BAD - Das Phänomen Michael Jackson …
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.